The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-02-13

ital and culture, men who are Learned
attorneys and good citizens. Their
there is smother class that enters into
the composition. and goes to swell tht
ranks. They are the class who keep
| the saloons and gambling holes, who
/ have no regular business or occupation
and who want dollar only for the en-
| ioyment it will bring them; who can be
| found on the streets, lounglng around
saloons and billiard tables, drinking and
carousing, using foul language and
staring at ladies as they pass along the
streets who have no regular Occupa-
ton, and who are not capable OF filling
any position creditably except it be that
of common loafers. Then there is
another element, the bone and sineW OF
the city; men who are honest, hard
working, industrious and good citizens.
Then there is transient class, that
take especial pleasure in. shouting most
loudly and proclaiming that they are
'loval Americans" class that lives
nowhere and subsists upon what it
can pick out of the pockets of their
more thrifty fellows 1t is certainly as,
tonishing that the latter class could
have got their names on the registry
list; but it is almost certain that many
of them will present themselves at the
polls on election day with a Liberal
ticket in their hands. This may be &C
counted for by the fact that the regis
tration officer is Liberal.
Now this Liberal party, this party of
such Heterogeneous composition as have
Le-n advocating certain principals.
Thev have repeatedly and constantly
published and declafei that all citizens
are tax payers and entitled to vote
whether or not they ever contributed
81 to the support of any government on
earth. This fact alone convinces every
Intelligent thinker that they depend
largely upon the votes of men who
ShIrk all the financial responsibility of
govern mentss to place them in office in
Usuen City; else why does the Llseral
party spend good money to keep the
fact glarlngly before the public, that
man to vote need pay no tax. The
party has made the glaring assertion
that If its officers are elected they will
make the town boom; they will branch
out in enterprise that will fairly pour
the coin into the Golfers of eVerv resi-
dent of the city until one would almost
think every passing tramp could pick sill
yer dollars from thetwigs and trees. This
boast from party whom necessity
compels to lean for support at the polls
upon persons who have never paid a
dollar in taxes of any kind and who in
all human probability never will pay
farthing toward defraying the expenses
OF the city government, causes one to
wonder what methods will be adopted
to fulfill the promise. Can it be that
the party never intend to accomplish
what they propose, or is it true that
they have mistaken their ability? 1t is
just barely possible that the vision of
city offices and power has had very
much the same effect upon their minds
that dream of plenty has upon the
FeVeTed imagination of a starved and
hungry wanderer, who in bis restless
sleep sees a table loaded with earth's
dainties and eats until his ravenous
3 petite is entirely satisfied, only to |
awake and feel the want more keenly |
than before, and curse the fate that !
sent the dream onlv to make the void |
more unbearable. If this is not par |
aiell, then the taxpayers VIII be made |
to disgorge until they will feel like
pack o. hungry wolves was gnawing at
the very vitals of their purse strings,
and gnashing their teeth because the |
.ountaIn of wealth was not illlmitable
SUI uuiuIIou. Ii the city cannot De
run into debt by note or bond; if the
ate OF taxation cannot be raised'ad lib,
he valuation of property can be ele-
-ated and the extreme limit collected to
i'll the city Golfers with bullion that
nay be expended in bringing about the
Promised boom and identifying the
treets and making public improve
q entS.
But tits possible that they have made
big mistake. The Liberal party has
made the most desperate efforts thus
ar to secure the votes, not stopping at
onorable means, but using dishonest
nd despised measures to accomplish
heir designs: Now if by the unscrupu-
BUS employment of fraud, they succeed
4 carrying the election, the majority
t property owners will refuse
} support the movement to boom the
ity. They will scan the methods used
} gain the victory and arrive at the
onclusion that the yictors want the
polls; this decision reached, they Will
imply refuse to add one dollar to their
improvements, that will enhance the
a.ue OF their property and enable
,eches to draw more hood from them
the way of taxes then what will be-
ONE OF the boosted boom?